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To many observers, European law seems like the endpoint of a mostly random walk through hi

Certainly the trajectory of legal systems in the West over the past 2,500 years is far from self-evident. In A

Short History of European Law, Tamar Herzog offers a new road map that reveals underlying patterns and

unexpected connections. By identifying what European law was, where its iterations could be found, who was

allowed to make and implement it, and what the results were, she ties legal norms to their historical

circumstances, and allows readers to grasp their malleability and fragility.Herzog describes how successive

European legal systems built upon one another, from ancient times through the establishment and growth of

the European Union. Roman law formed the backbone of each configuration, though the way it was

understood, used, and reshaped varied dramatically from one century and place to the next. Only by

considering continental civil law and English common law together do we see how they drew from and

enriched this shared tradition.Expanding the definition of Europe to include its colonial domains, Herzog

explains that British and Spanish empires in the New World were not only recipients of European legal

traditions but also incubators of new ideas. Their experiences, as well as the constant tension between

overreaching ideas and naive localism, explain how European law refashioned itself as the epitome of reason

and as a system with potentially global applications.